(Veiled Threats) A Hallowed Hunt

[Avis]

"North," Avis agreed, smiling around her toothpick. She slipped her hands out of her pockets and followed after the group, making sure she was taking up the rear. As they went over the bridge she couldn't help taking a peek over the railing at the water rippling below. She always loved the sight of sun sparkling off water. She had a recurring dream, often, where she ran down a sun dappled path toward a green river, the voices of a man and a woman echoing comfortingly after her, their words muddled by the sound of water and the movement of leaves. The image of a white and yellow flower appeared in her mind, flashing over the memory of the dream, and her smile disappeared.

[Star]

"Oh, yeah. Mad jelly," he nodded, agreeing.

No lie. Like, smoke bomb the building jelly. Took a moment to figure out what Avis was doing, lagging. Right, right.

"Hey, Mandy?"

The deck in his hands rolled over; once, twice. Then split in two, half in each hand, shifting through simultaneous one-handed cuts before both fanned out into two semicircles. Together again into a larger circle before collapsing into a single deck.

"Turn that frown upside down!"

A more complicated sequence chained the deck four quarters before it collapsed again and flowed in a long line from one hand to the other. A single card jumped out out of the deck into a waiting hand -- just like their first dinner together.

The card turned over so fast it snapped.

Four of diamonds.

No one had ever looked, at dinner. C'mon girl. Smile. Otherwise you're going to hear how many public parks Sacramento has.

Cut knew.

He'd looked at a map.

Yep! Moving along!

  4 Successes on Difficulty 5

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-06-06 07:18:43		Cut rolls 4 to All The Cards (Dex + Larceny + Spec) -5 Difficulty (10 Again)		9, 10, 8, 4, 9		4 successes

[Zodiac]

Mandy didn't look impressed, precisely, by the show of cards. So what? Four of Diamonds, woohoo. How about an Ace of Go Fuck Yourself? She kept the thought to herself, though, as she looked off to the side. Stupid Mysterium. Seriously, they ruined everything. And the Jester was putting on his ridiculous jingly hat and flicking about cards...

If she was a Forces mage, she'd've simply blown them all into his face. Magic shops and shenanigans were basically what was going on here. Children. All of them. Was she babysitting? ... well, at least the Arrow could, in theory, take care of themselves. And if not, they weren't her problem.

Lucky. Hah. She wasn't feeling particularly lucky about her situation.

[Avis]

"We should try to, ya know, keep on the Dee Ell. Not that wasn't a nice trick," Avis said from the back, eyes roving over their surroundings. She was trying to be conscious of their surroundings but she couldn't help but think over what the card had meant. Maybe it was just supposed to represent them, but she didn't remember what significance diamonds had. What were they in tarot, suite of cups? Emotions? No, that didn't sound right.

Oh, wait. The four parts of the Dragon, the Diamond. The problem was, there really were five parts. It was the Pentacle that made the Awakened community whole, not just the Diamond. She didn't understand why more mages didn't understand that.

[Xander]

The Veiled threats follow the ley line into Western Sacramento. They trek north east to what is obviously a residential area where the line flows under dozens of houses.

Unless the plan is lots of home invasions, you can feel free to roll Wits+Streetwise or Wits+Socialize to ask around and gather intel on where you might find an appropriate Hallow. Feel free to Teamwork the roll as per the rules on page 134 of the WoD Corebook.

[Star]

Hey, Mandy. There's a medical term for your condition: 'Biaaaaaatch'.

He kept that to himself. Likewise, the flashiness of tossing cards around next to a girl walking around in kevlar.

Instead, he worked his jelly to give Avis a hand.

  +1,0,+2,+2 to Avis' rolls

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-06-08 19:41:32		[04] Cut rolls 4 to Wits + Streetwise (Teamwork Assist to Avis) (10 Again)		7, 7, 10, 10, 6, 2		2 successes
2014-06-08 19:41:32		[03] Cut rolls 4 to Wits + Streetwise (Teamwork Assist to Avis) (10 Again)		3, 9, 5, 9		2 successes
2014-06-08 19:41:32		[02] Cut rolls 4 to Wits + Streetwise (Teamwork Assist to Avis) (10 Again)		2, 3, 2, 4		failure
2014-06-08 19:41:32		[01] Cut rolls 4 to Wits + Streetwise (Teamwork Assist to Avis) (10 Again)		4, 5, 10, 5, 6		1 success

[Zodiac]

So she wasn't a team player. Was that really such a surprise? Really? She was lost in her thoughts about this whole thing - far too much so to be of any assistance to anyone, realistically. She had half a mind to simply walk off at that point... if it weren't for the fact that she hadn't really finished what she'd come here to do in the first place. Ugh.

  ... dramatic assist fail!

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2014-06-09 01:01:03		Ozymandias rolls 1 to Wits -1 for untrained Streetwise (10 Again)		1		failure